Category: Amazon RDS

It is always fun to write about price reductions. I enjoy knowing that our customers will find AWS to be an even better value over time as we work on their behalf to lower our own costs and pass the savings along. Effective October 1, 2010 we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved pricing for […]

It is possible to characterize the workload handled by a relational database in terms of the ratio of reads to writes. Some applications seem to use about the same number of reads and writes. Others write a little bit of data and read a lot. This read-heavy behavior is frequently seen in web applications. Different […]

I can’t even leave my neighborhood without getting feature requests! My neighbor Rick was walking his dog past my house and stopped to ask me when we were going to support Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS. Such is life in the Pacific Northwest part of the US. Hey Rick, we’ve got your RDS Reserved Instances […]

I’ve got a pair of related news items for users of the Amazon Relational Database System (RDS): We now support version 5.1.49 of MySQL, with the InnoDB Plugin as the InnoDB storage engine. We now provide a new, optional level of control over when and if your DB Instance(s) are upgraded to new MySQL versions […]

We’ve added some very handy new functionality to the RDS tab of the AWS Management Console. Here’s a quick tour. First, you can create a new DB Instance from any of your existing snapshots. You can click this button: Or you can right-click on one of your snapshots: After you provide the parameters, Amazon […]

By popular demand, the Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections! We now generate an SSL certificate for each DB Instance. If you need a certificate for an existing instance you’ll need to reboot it using the AWS Management Console, the RDS command-line tools, or the RDS APIs. Here are a few things […]

The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Relational Database Service: You can now create, manage, and scale DB Instances with point and click ease. Let’s start by launching an instance using the Launch DB Instance Wizard. Click on the Launch DB Instance button: Fill in the first page of the wizard. Enter the desired […]

Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don’t have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware, loading an operating system, installing and configuring MySQL, or managing backups. In addition, scaling the processing power or storage space available to your database is as […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is now available in our US West (Northern California) Region. With this release, Amazon RDS is now available in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions so you can deploy your DB Instance(s) in whichever Region minimizes your latency or […]